Royal College of Physicians Tuesday 4th October 2016
SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES
Max Farrell is a Partner at Farrells, leading
on strategic planning and communications.
He is involved in high profile infrastructure
and placemaking projects, including the
expansion of Gatwick based on a second
runway and the new development where
Crossrail meets HS2 at Old Oak Common.
He is also leading on international projects
and for overseas clients investing in London.
Max is Project Leader for the Farrell Review
of Architecture and the Built Environment,
published in 2014 after consultation with
government, institutions, industry and
the public. As a result of the Review,
DCLG set up a Design Quality Panel
which Max attends; the House of Lords
established the Select Committee on
the Built Environment; the industry-led
Place Alliance was formed and over 20
urban rooms have been established
throughout the country.
Duncan McCallum has 30 years of
experience in the heritage sector; for
local authorities, English Heritage and
Historic England. He trained as a town
planner at Newcastle University, with
a Masters in Conservation Studies from
York University.Duncan joined English
Heritage in 1996 and became Policy Director
in 2005. He led EH’s input into the NPPF
and its supporting guidance. He wrote
the first heritage audit for England,
Heritage Counts. He works closely
with other heritage sector partners
for example the on-going reform of
the planning system. He is a member
of the IHBC, a Fellow of the RTPI and
the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Sarah Gaventa is the founder of Made
Public which curates and advises on
public realm and cultural placemaking.
She curated Historic England’s major
exhibition,
Out There: Our Post-War
Public Art. Sarah has a BA in Art History
and studied at both the Courtauld
Institute and UCL. She has an MA in
Design History from the Royal College
of Art and V&A. Sarah was director
of CABE Space from 2006—2011,
and whilst there was also Director
of Seachange, a £40 million capital
grant programme for the cultural
and heritage regeneration of seaside
resorts. She was a member of HLF’s
Expert Panel, EH’s London Environment
Panel and a founder of the London
Architecture Festival. She is an Honorary
Fellow of the Landscape Institute.
Taryn Nixon is the Chief Executive
of M OLA, a practice of some 340
archaeology professionals
actively
involved in integrating complex
archaeology and built heritage
challenges with planning and
development across the UK and
internationally. In a thirty year
career in archaeology in the UK
and the Far East, Taryn has made
key contributions to heritage
policy and standards. She initiated
and chaired the heritage sector
Southport Group initiative, whose
report on realising public benefit
from development-led archaeology
was launched by John Penrose MP
in 2011. She is a former Chair of the
Chartered Institute for Archaeologists
and has served on CABE's Design
Review Panel and Historic England's
London Advisory Committee.
Esther Kurland is a planner and
urban designer. She worked for 10
years in local authorities in policy,
development control and design
and conservation planning posts.
Esther then moved to the GLA where
she worked on the first London Plan
before moving to CABE to lead on
planning issues in 2003. She has
been Director of UDL since 2006 and
has worked to develop and improve
UDL’s programme, working closely
with core partners TfL, the GLA,
London boroughs and many others.
Esther has served on a wide range
of Design Review panels, steering
groups and advisory committees
dealing with Crossrail stations,
Thames Tunnel’s new riverside
mini parks, council housing estate
renewal projects, historic garden
improvements, major town centre
improvements and street redesigns.
Christopher Costelloe has been the
Director of the Victorian Society
since 2012, following two years as a
caseworker there. He is also a qualified
stonemason, having completed
an apprenticeship in Somerset. He
has also worked as a regeneration
consultant and for an investment
bank. Sketching Norman Shaw’s
Grimsdyke at the age of seven kindled
his interest in architecture, which was
aided by reading History at Durham in
the shadow of the great cathedral.
Richard Murphy founded his practice
in 1991. It has since won 21 RIBA Awards.
Projects includes houses, housing,
educational and health buildings,
offices, hotel, master-planning,
galleries, theatres and two British
Embassies. Richard is an authority
on the Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa
and has written monographs on the
Castelvecchio Verona and the Querini
Stampalia in Venice. Two monographs
have also been published on the
practice’s work. Richard lives in a house
which he designed in the Edinburgh
World Heritage Site. Recently given an
RIBA National Award 2016, it is soon
to be featured for the RIBA/Channel 4
House of the Year Competition 2016.
Erin Byrne is an ARB registered Architect
working in the fields of architecture,
urban design, regeneration and
planning. Erin currently works for the
GLA Regeneration Team on a number
of high-profile regeneration projects
across London with partners including
local authorities, community groups,
businesses and design teams. These
projects range from the development
of large scale place-shaping strategies
and public realm projects to the
development of new workspace and
community facilities. Previously she
worked at London Legacy Development
Corporation (LLDC) leading on a
range of projects including bringing
forward development on LLDC
owned land, masterplanning, interim
use and delivering new affordable
workspace as well as providing formal
urban design advice to the Planning
Decisions Team. She is also a visiting
critic at universities across the UK.
Eric Reynolds set up, ran and still runs
some of the most important peopleplaces
established in London from the
early 1970’s onwards, including Camden
Lock Market, Merton Abbey Mills,
Spitalfields Old Fruit and Vegetable
Market, Gabriel’s Wharf, Bishopsgate
Goodsyard and Trinity Buoy Wharf. He
devised Container City; comprising the
recycling of shipping containers into
buildings. Eric played a key role in saving
Smithfield Market and is involved with
USM NYC’s latest indoor food market in
Lexington Avenue. He won the Regeneration
and Renewal “Lifetime Achievement
Award” for Regeneration in 2012.
Image left (not visible on phone): Bloomsbury Urban Realm Strategy, an education-led masterplan for University College London, London Borough of Camden, British Museum
and London Development Agency 2005 – ongoing. The area is of national importance in terms of its architecture, squares and heritage. © Farrells